In this Black History Month special, DLA Piper pension partner Joel Eytle and financial markets associate Dolapo Oshin speak about their experiences as Black lawyers in the London market. Here, they discuss reverse mentoring, the effects of having an unfamiliar, foreign sounding name, the merits or otherwise of taking part in networking initiatives, and their reticence to get help through schemes and organisations for black people to secure training contracts because it feels like 'cheating'.